The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-08-05
PROHIBITION TESTED.
A Years Experience In Atlanta Proves
1t 10 be Practicable.

A Years Experience In Atianta Proves
tito be Practicable.
The election at which prohibition was
put on trial in this city is entitled to a
place among great events. No election of
a local nature was ever before held in q
city of GO, 900 people in which more was
involved. 1t has now been eighteen
months since the election. and twelve
months since the law went into effect. We
are prepared thus from observation to note
results.
Prohibition in this city does prohibit.
The law is observed as well as the law
against carrying concealed weapons, gam
bling, theft, and other o~ffenses of like
character. In consideration of the small
majority with which prohibition was car
ried, and the large number of people who
were opposed to seeing it prohibit. the law
has been maEvelously we'll observed.
Prohibition has not injured the city
financially. According to the assessors
books property in the city has increased
over two millions of dollars. Taxes have
not been increased. Two streets in the
city, Decatur and Peters, were known as
liquor streets. 1t was hardly considered
proper for a lady to walk these streets
without an escort. Now they are just as
orderly as any in the city. Property on
them has advanced from 10 to 81 per cent.
The loss of $40, 900 revenue, consequent
On oIosi,r +ba caIoanc hos fandad in no
degree to impede the city's progress in any
direction. Large appropriations have been
made to the water works, the public
schools, the Piedmont fair II other inn
ed s400, 900 to build the Atlanta and Haw-
| kinsvillc Railroad. The number of city
| banks is to be increased to five. The conf
| ing of four new railroads has been settled
during the year. Fifteen new stores con-
tanning house-furnishing goods have been
| started since prohibition went into effect.
| These are doing well. More furniture has
| been sold to mechanics and laboring men
in the last twelve months than in any
twelve months during the the history OF
the city. The manufacturing establish
ments of the city have received new life.
| A glass factory has beer built. A cotton
| seed oil mill has been built worth $685.
600. All Improvement companies with a
| basis in real estate have seen their stock
doubled in value since the election on pro-
hibition.
Stores in which the liquor trade was
| conducted arc not vacant, but are now DC
| cupied by other lines of trade. According
men of limited means are buying lots than
ever before. Rents are more promptly
paid than formerly. More houses are
rented by the same number of families
than heretofore. Before prohibition, some
| times as many as three families would live
in one house. The heads of those families
now not spending their money for drink
are eaeh able to rent a house, thus using
three instead of one. Working men who
formerly spent a great part OF their money
for liquor now spend it in food and clothes
| for their families. The retail grocery men
sell more goods and collect their bills bet
ter than ever before. Thus they are able
to settle more promptly with the whole
| sale men.
4 perceptible increase has been noticed
in the number of people who ride on the
| street cars. According to the coal dealers,
many people bought coal and stored il
away last winter who had never beer
known to do so before. Others who had
been accustomed to buying two or three
tons on time, this last winter bought sever
and eight and paid cash for it. A leading
proprietor of a millinery store said that he
had sold more hats aud bonnets to labor
ing men for their wives and daughter.
than before in the history of his business
Contractors say their men do better work,
and on Saturday evenings, when they re
ceive their weeks wages. spend the same
for flour, hams, dry goods, or other neces
sary things for their families. Thus they
are in better spirits, have more hope, ana
are not inclined to strike and growl about
higher wages.
Attendance upon the public schools ha'
increased. The Superintendent of Publl